Willie Dickson

Willie Dickson, a Black man, was held at the State Sanatorium for insane persons near Milledgeville, Georgia. In September 1925, according to an Associated Press dispatch printed in The Watchman and Southron, a group carried him from the institution's colony farm to the Williston county line. There, the dispatch reports, he was lynched.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Associated Press reported that a mob carried Willie Dickson from the state sanatorium's colony farm to the Williston county line and lynched him.

Reported by: Associated Press (reporters).

Source

• The Watchman And Southron, September 23, 1925, page 4 The Watchman And Southron, September 23, 1925